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Decline of transhumance will negatively to impact vulture communities
An international team of scientists reveals in a new study that the abandonment of traditional livestock farming activities, such as transhumance, could be detrimental to scavenger communities....
Correcting 6% of electric pylons used by Canarian Egyptian vultures could reduce electrocutions by 50%
A study led by the Doñana Biological Station analyzes the patterns of power lines use by Canarian Egyptian vultures. The researchers have fitted 49 individuals with GPS-devices. This accounted for...
A study led by the CSIC finds that the Egyptian vulture selects the areas with the highest density of individuals to reproduce for the first time
The data have been obtained from the long-term monitoring programs of six populations of Egyptian vultures (Neophron percnopterus) from Spain and France. The study makes it possible to advance in...
Red mud as makeup in the Egyptian vultures
It is well-established that plumage colours are important for avian visual communication and are used to signal social information. Yet, little is known about the ability of birds to modify the...
Supplementary feeding for avian scavenger
The monitoring of an experimental feeding station established in northern Spain allowed the evaluation of how this type of resource, predictable in space but not in time, was exploited by a guild...